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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-17

nR. DE sZIGETHY : OFFICE, sCHU.
~ macher Block. opposite Postofice,
rooms 90 and 81. Office hours, II NJ to 8 P.
M. Residence rearl street, corner of Ninth.
Office hours at residence, to 9A NJ; ITO 6
?. NJ. Telephone No. 169 at office and resi-
dence. ian3tf
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nk. U. ED9Ak 6M,rh-DlsEASEs OF
~ women a specially. Rectal diseases
treated by the Brinkerhoff Painless Sys'
tenn. Hours-9 A. N. to 4 P. M. Offices
Corner Of Spring and Second streets. Hol.
lenbeck Block. Eep5u
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SPECIAL TRAINS WILL RU

And stopping at all way stations.
Reaching OCEANsIDE from all points Al
IL O'Clock A. NJ.
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GRIFFIN JOHNSTON. SHELDON BORDEN.
B. A. YoRBA.
JOHNSTON, BORDEN & YORBA, ATTOR
d neys-at-Law and Examiners of Titles
Rooms and s, Jones Block, 75 North Spring
street. Abstracts and certificates of title fur.
nished with promptitude and accuracy. TT
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

an ex-offico capacity until August 10 of the
N. Setzar, he in turn by j. S. Proctor, who
held the office until March Is. 1870. He
declined a reappOntment. it is said. because
he could not manage the institution accord
ing to the dictates of his conscience, and
satisfy the demands OF a ring that existed
at that time and controlled the convict la
Dor. He was man with heart and be-
lieved a convict had soul and was hui
man being. May his name be perpetuated.
A. B. Weber was then appointed, but held
the Office only seven months, until October
1870. He too, had the same complaint
believing a convict had soul and was hui
man consequently this was not the
position he was destined to fill. He was
followed by Henry A. Jackman, who held
the office until August 3. 1874. when he
was succeeded by j. A. Reed. who held the
position until January so, 1887. OF this
administration volumes might be said. but
it is sufficient to say Capt. Reed held the
position twelve long years without any Sc
riOus complications with the rings or con-
tractors in the face of the above record.
The present incumbent, the Hon. H. G.
StOrdOck, has nearly fifteen months yet to
serve. MOdesty prevents me from saying
much apont his administration, but in the
language of another, this place is a palace
to what it was before his advent as warden,
and that he believes convict is human and
has soul, no convict who has shown HIM
self a man doubts. RAMBLER.
Dec. 9, 1887.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

The Anamosa Eureka, of Nov. "a. pub
lshed extracts from the report of Warden
Barr, made June 80, 1887. The report
gives the impression that the AnamOsa
penitentiary is under first class manage
ment. Many suggestions are made by the
warden and other officers of legislation to
aid them in the better treatment of con-
yicts. The warden recommends IAN in
crease of the good time for long time pris-
Oners." The physician asks for good
bath house, well heated in winter; large
and commodious laundry where the clothes
can be more thoroughly dried; better quar-
tiers for the women; and better arrange
ments for caring for the criminal insane.
w. G. Gum, who performs the double
function of chaplain and teacher, gives an
interesting report. full of good sense and
important suggestions. He conducts chap
ell exercises Sabbath morning, Sabbath
school in the afternoon, and five days of
each week day school in the afternoon.
where the primary branches are taught.
None leave the prison who cannot read and
write. He recommends classification of
prisoners according to their degree of GRIM
inality, or that one of the prisons of the
state be made reformatory where only
first offenders are imprisoned. The entire
report shows that the officers are impressed
with their duties and responsibilities.
They see the glazing defects of the pre-
vailing prison system. and are not at all
backward about making them known to
the people. Ii the officers of the various
prisons throughout the country would give
more attention to the education and proper
treatment of convicts while imprisoned
they would benefit the people at large more
than can ever be hoped for while the
principal aim is the most economical means
of running penitentiary. Some one has
said that they would rather feed one man
on chicken three times day than ten men
on beans once day. Count us in with
the idea.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07


There is one law in the statute books Of
Minnesota that ought certainly, in Justice
to criminals. il to this class there is any
justice, to be revised so as to conform more
with the usuages of the latter part of the
nineteenth century instead of the same
portion of the eighteenth. That is the law
regulating the punishment for grand larceny.
The lowest sentence allowed by the present
statues is five years in the penitentiary and
any one who is at all acquainted with the
legal definition of the term grand larceny,
will perceive at once that there must arise
cases in which the punishment provided is
altogether too severe. Crime, it is true.
should be justly punished, but punishment
too severe. consider as bad as no punish
ment at all. Both judges and attorneys
unite in asserting that the law is too severe,
and that change, by decreasing the lowest
penalty, would prove more beneficial than
harmful.-Red Wing Advance.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

''Gath." poor. devout soul, objects to
fancy slippers in church, and don't like to
see his fellow unfOrtunateS worship in
their shirt sleeves. Perhaps Cath" don't
wear cowhide shoes six days in the week,
and perhaps he dosen't work in either the
blacksmith or machine shop, or foundry,
where of necessity ones coat becomes
sOiled. Come down, Gath" you are too
fastldious for a true christian. The Master
will never ask what kind of clothes you
wOrShipped in.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07
why and How the Mind of Prisoners
Should BE Occupied.

Editor Mirror:
Circumstances which through your kind
ness have been enabled to overcome, have
heretofore prevented me from contributing
to your paper. Most all nationaities have
sent in articles for TIE MIRROR. but to
my knowledge there has been nothing
written by German. And l now take the
liberty to say few words on the thoughts
of men while in confinement Men in con-
tinement have time to think. indeed. are
compelled to think, which is an uncommon
danger. for thought under the circumstances
is One-sided, grows morbid and is product
i've of no good. A man needs personal
intercourse with other minds: he ought to
meet contradiction, diverse opinions and
indulge in animated discussions and thus
destroy or divert the natural tendency OF
the mind which is prone to brood on the
present disgrace, or perhaps injury or
wrongful incarceration. A mans mind
is impreSsiOnable, and the influence of
strong mind over q weaker one is far
greater than is ordinary supposed. A
mans mind will naturally initiate the
example of greater minds In proportion as
whose ambition leads them to aspire to
better name, know that there is substan-
tial benefit to be derived from intercourse
with pure and refined minds But if this
association is denied him and in place of it
he is compelled to associate with minds
whose every tendency is downward, can
you wonder that stay of several years in
this place is productive of much HARM
rather than the desired good and that
under the present system it is almost i'm
possible for a man to reform? A man can
not ALLEVIATE himself from his thoughts.
Like the poor, they are always with us,
and it they have no proper outlet. no means
of external nOuriShment. like consanguine-
Gus marriages, the material is sure to de-
teriOrate until it is beyond the possibility of
improvement. You may readily see under
these circumstances how diseased mans
mind may become and how easy for him to
re-enter life of crime as soon as released
The law therefore should provide some
means to occupy and improve the minds of
prisoners during the hours that they are
unemployed. The associations that have
been organized for the reformation of
criminals should take this matter in hand.
Let evening schools be started, temperance
and debating societies formed; give the
convict two or more evenings Il week for
the healthy exercise of his mind, and an
opportunity for improvement and great
good cannot fail to be the outcome
More or less has been said on behalf of
reform in the columns of THE MIRROR,
but we may well say with Virgil, ''No
regiOnam de Lor. marquata de passa"
Dec. T. 1887. F. H. S.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

An article appeared not long ago in the
Minneapolis Tribune which seems to the
Pioneer as ill-iudged and ill-motived as the
famous one whose unchivalric quality has
recently brought down such storm of re-
buke
But the papers have not come out as
strongly in defense of The PRISON MIR
ROR, the second object of attack, as they did
in the other instances; SO the Pioneer gives
its voice against the idea of suppressing the
little paper published at the state peniten-
tiary and against the injustice of Judging it
from an angelic standard to which very few
papers published by men in this state con-
form.
A regular reading of THE MIRROR, in
stead of impressing an unprecedented per-
son with the faults pointed out by the
Tribune and the specially harmful nature
of the contents, surprises with the preva-
lence of the very opposite class of matter,
and attracts the sympathies of the most re.
fined to the men who are capable of think
ing SO high against so heavy odds. While
some little arbitration on the part of a
judge untrammelled in mind by convict's
position might be wise. to suppress the
means by which the better thought of the
convict may emphasize itself and commune
cate with the responsive philanthropy out
side of prison walls seems wholly unneces-
sary and inadvisable. Not only so, but
after having given the "spirits in prison"
the taste they have had of a privilege so
dear, such suppression would be an act
too cruel, too nhuman and barbarous, unless
they had abused the privilege in way of
which outside readers generally do not &C
cuse them. Park Region Pioneer.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07
An Historical SpOt---PrisOn


niscencess
Editor Mirror:
According to history and tradition the
hollow where this prison is situated and the
steep bluffs which surround it are historic
in more than the simple fact Of the state
and brief sketch of it's history may be of
some interest to the readers of THE MIR
ROR.
In the year 1911 the French took formal
possession of the Northwest by the right
TO discovery, and retained undisputed pos
session Except the claims of the red many
until the year 17O3 when by the Versailles
treaty, the French ceded that portion of
Minnesota east of the Mississippi to the
English, which of course included this MEM
orable hollow. The English retained
possession until the Declaration of indie
pendence by the founders of the United
States. under which government it passed
under the following territories, Ohio, Indi-
ana. Wisconsin and Minnesota. The first
whites who inhabited the shores of Lake
st. CroiX where the traders of the North
western Fur Co., in the year 1898, but they
made no attempt at sediment and civliza-
ton. The first actual settlement of civili-
cation at or near this hollow was the settle
ment of Saltwater in 1S43, but as history
proclaims war an indication of civilization,
this hollow and the surrounding bluffs were
settled at least for three days by an Indian
battle in the year 1913, between the DakO-
tas, OjibWas and Winnebagoes, who came
from the west by land, and the Chippewas
and Menominees, who came by canoes from
the waters now known as the Wisconsin
and Chippewa rivers. At the sitting of
the sun on the third day of battle the Chip
pewas and Menominees were forced to re-
treat down the hollow to the lake of St.
CrOlX and embark in their canoes Thus
the sitting sun smiled over agony, broken
hearts and bleeding souls as far as tradition
goes, through prison hollow for the first
time, as if God had destined it as place of
torture where bleeding hearts no rest shall
find. The territorial legislature, Oh Feb
ruary 25, 1851, enacted law for the estab.
lishment of a territorial prison, and selected
the aforesaid battle ground as it's site.
For many years the site was surrounded
only by board fence, prisoners were few,
escapes were of frequent occurrence. The
place was commonly known as ''DelanO's
bull pen," in honor of its first warden, the
Hon. F. r. Delano, who held that position
from March, 1853 until March, 1858, when
Francis o. j. Smith held that position in
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

Jacob Sharp, the New York boodler, has
been granted new trial. This has been
brought about by persistence and the prod
igal use of money, no doubt. Had he been
a poor man, his sentence would have been
Immediately carried out. Justice should
as certainly overtake the rich as the poor
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

Jake Sharp has been admitten to bail in
the sum of $40, 900, and it is not probable
he will ever be brought to trial again.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

We make mistakes when we think:
That it's cowardly to be tender and kind;
That it's manly to be ''tough;''
That welI-dressed man is necessarily a
"dude;''
That a polite. civil-spoken man is a
''SnOb;"
That we can get out of here by the little
game of Bluff or fraud of any kind;
That little rules don't amount to much; or
That the editor hasa ''snap. "-Summary.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

Goodwill, like a good name, is got by
many actions and lost by one.-EX.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1887-12-07

Why is policeman popularity called a
"copper"" Because he often passes a
(s)cent
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-12-30
TRUSTEE'S.SAL

WHEREAS, Mary and Anna Shaw, by their
certain Deed of Trust dated the 18th day of
February IsS6, and recorded in the Recorders
Office of Adair Comfy, at Deed Book U. page
81, conveyed to the undersigned A. NJ. Smith
Trustree, all their right, title, interest and
estate, in and to the following described Real
Estate situated in the county of Adair, State
of Missouri, viz !: Lots No. Two and Three
q & y of Block No, Forty-Four "a situated in
the Original Town of Kirksville, which said
conveyance was made in trust to secure the
payment of ~ certain promissory note in said
deed described and whereas three of said notes
have become due and are unpaid, which &C
cording to the provisions of said deed of trust
renders the whole of said unpaid notes, IS due
and payable, now therefore, in accordance with
the provisions of said Deed of Trust, and at the
request of the legal holder of said notes will
procede to sell the above described Real Estate
at the court house door in the town of Kinks
vile, in the county of Adair, State Of Missouri
aforesaid, to the highest bidder for cash,
at public auction, on Saturday the l4th day
of January 1885, between the hours of nine in
The forenoon and five in the afternoon to salts
fly said note, together with the cost and
expense of executing this trust.
A. NJ. SMITH,
Trustree.
Dated this 9th day of December 1857.
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ST. NICHOLAS
FOR YOUNG FOLKS

Since the first issue, in 1873 this Magazine has
maintained, with undisputed recognition, the
position it took at the beginning-that of be-
ing the most excellent juvenile periodical ever
printed. The best known names in literature
were On its list of contributors from the start,
Bryant Longfellow, Thomas Hughes, Geo.
Macdonald, Bret Harte, Bayard Taylor,
Frances Hodgson Burnett, James 7. Field,
John G Whittier; indeed the list is so long
that it would be easier to tell the few authors
of note who have not contributed to ''the
worlds child magazine.''
THE EDITOR, MARY MAPEs DODGE,
author of CLANS Brinker, or The Silver
Skates, - and other popular books for young
folks,-and for grown-up folks too, has re-
markable faculty for knowing aud entertain
ing children. Under her skillful leadership,
St. Nicholas brings to thousands of homes on
both sides of the water knowledge and de-
light.
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MAYNARD
COUGH CANDY.
Recommended by the Leading
Physicians as Tonic and
Expectorant.

We take pleasure in making
known to the public, this valuable
candy, as C medicine. 1t is made
with a view of combining the best
known remedies for Bronchial
troubles with pure candy in such
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vet effective in it's work. 1t costs
but trife. The children coilsid-
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! ct 1t takes the place OF costly
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,llr. Maynard has boen manufac
turing this candy and using it fo1
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speaking l. the highest terms OF
is efficacy us a medicine. 1t is
blended for coughs, colds and
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taken as a syrup will cure Group.
1t gives US great pleasure to pub
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Candy:
DIR. I. W. SHAW, a prominent
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but now of Philadelphia says:
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is better remedy for throat OF
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DR.. f A. GROVE, of Kirksville,
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| DIR. GooDsoN, Of Macon City,
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| KIRKsvILLE, Mo-, March 21st.
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cases of colds ON the lungs ano
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| 1t is further recommended by
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This candy can be had for Al
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Kirksville, Mo.
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SheriTs Sale.

BY virtue and authority of special eXecu-
ton on a Judgment for delinquent taxes issued
from the office OF the clerk of the circuit court
of Adair county, No, on the 2Sth day of Nov,
lSSI, made returnable at the January term,
ISIS, of said court, and to me the undersigned
sheriff, directed and delivered, in favor of the
state of Missouri. at the relation and 10 the
use of NJ. +. Srtock collector of the revenue for
Adair county, Missouri, and against unknown
heirs of Benjamin Wilson in pursuance of a
Judgment and order Of sale of said circuit court
at its october term, lSS1, l have levied upon
and s,iZed, and on Thursday the 9Th day of
January, lSSS. will sell at the court house door
in the town of kirksyille, Adair county, Mo-,
between the hours of O'Clock in the forenoon
and ) clock in the afternoon of said day while
the circuit court within and for said county is
in session, at public auction to the highest
bidder, for cash in hand, the following de-
scribed real estate, situated in Adair county,
Missouri, or so much thereof as viii satisfy
the judgment, interests and costs in said cause
the same being lien against said real estate.
as shown by judgment, and decree of said
court, to-wit:
IL acres east sids southeast quarter of south
west quarter, section wenty six. %, township
sixty four CA, range sixteen, l6, and 20 acres
Z IL ES w section twenty six, 26, township
sixty four 81, range sixteen, Is and west half
of the north cGst Ii OF north west quarter sec
ton thirty Eve, -, township sixty tout, ca,
range sixteen, il, south half of southeast
quarter, section twenty six, %, township six
ty four, "a, range sixteen, &c. all in Adair
county. Missouri, to satisfy said execution and
costs OF this sale. j. II. kINSEAR,
Sheriff Adair Co. No.
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SheriFs Sale.

BY virtue and authority of special execu-
ton on judgment for delinquent taxes, issu-
ed from the Office of the clerk of the circuit
court of Adalr comfy, Mo-, on the 2sth day OF
November, lss7, made returnable at the jan
uary term, 1SSS, of said court and to me the
undersigned sheriff. directed and delivered, in
favor of the state of Miss uri, at the relation
and to the use of NJ. +. Strock collector of the
revenue for Adair county, Missouri, and
against j T. Patterson, ]. o. Brisc >, J. ID.
Town, CANT Crebs and j. s. Shelter in pur-
suance OF Judgment ard order of sale of said
circuit court at its October term. 1's7. have
levied upon and seized, and on Thursday the
5ih day OF January, ISsS, Will sell at the court
house door in the town of Kirksvile, Adair
county. Mo-, between the hours of O'Clock
in the forenoon and o clock in the afternoon
OF said day while the circuit court within and
for said county is in session, at public auction
to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, the
following described real estate, situated in
Aiair county, Missouri, or SO much thereof as
will satisfy the judgment interests and costs
in said cause, the same being lien against
said real estate, as shown by Judgment and de-
cree of said court, to-wit:
Northwest quarter of the northeast quarter
ofsections twenty-five [22l, township sixty
tour l64l range seventeen fl7l Adair courty,
Mo, to satisfy said execution and costs of this
sale. j. II. K1NNEAR,
Sheriff Adair county, Mo.
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